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ICE Is Treating Trans Immigrants With A New Level Of Cruelty A HuffPost investigation found how the Trump administration systematically destroyed safeguards for detainees, subjecting them to abuse and neglect.

NEW: It’s difficult to account for the abuses trans immigrants face in ICE custody after Trump destroyed safeguards, oversight agencies, and data about detainees.

But 3 trans migrants told me what it’s really like: Medical neglect. Solitary confinement. Harassment. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Catherine O’Hara Gets Real-Life Dog Show Tribute At Norwich Terrier Judging Catherine O’Hara Gets Real-Life Dog Show Tribute At Norwich Terrier Judging

O'Hara starred in the 2000 mockumentary "Best in Show."

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

HuffPost Union just delivered a strike pledge signed by 100% of our members. We are united and prepared to do whatever is necessary to reach a fair deal. #faircontractnow

5-Year-Old in ICE Detention Is Sick, Says Top School Official The 5-year-old who was taken by federal agents in Minneapolis is being held behind bars with his father in Texas.

NEW: Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed last week and shipped off to a Texas detention facility with his dad, is now in poor health, his school superintendent told me today www.huffpost.com/entry/liam-c...

it's meant to be✨✊ #faircontractnow

HuffPost Union bargaining committee members pose for a photo on the first day of in-person bargaining.

Hot off the presses 📰

Bargaining committee was on 🔥 yesterday & we’re back at the table today! We won’t back down as we fight for just compensation, equitable severance and AI protections that let us create the fearless, top-notch journalism the world needs now. ✊ #faircontractnow

Everyone deserves a piece of the cheese! 🧀 #faircontractnow #huffpost #WGAE

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Feel free to drop a note if you know anything on this:

Jen.Bendery@huffpost.com / jbendery.41 on Signal

Despicable if this is true.

Q for anyone who works at the VA:

Has the VA secretary or leadership said anything internally addressing the fucking elephant in the room that one of their VA colleagues was just shot to death by a federal agent?

Hearing from one source it's been a cone of silence in there, no comms to staff.

"Last week, ICE agents detained a parent ... while her child and others were waiting for the school bus.
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'The kid ran to the bus. She was mentally shaken. This is a 9-year-old.'"

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As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

Feels like a goddamn war zone out here.

The constant sound of helicopters, people loudly shouting and cursing at ICE, flash bangs, tear gas, so many people in gas masks and/or face coverings.

There's also a drone hovering above the crowd now.

More tear gas. More flash bangs.

I'm on site where a federal agent shot a Minneapolis man this morning. It's bad.

Dozens of federal agents are facing off with hundreds of outraged residents. People being tear gassed, helicopters above, I keep hearing pops, and lots of loud BANGS.

This smoke is from tear gas:

The People vs. ICE Renee Good’s death galvanized a city eager to push back against Trump’s invasion.

I wrote about Minneapolis.

nymag.com/intelligence...

nine years old

U.S. Allies Say They've Never Been So Freaked Out By Trump European officials told HuffPost about their terrifying week living through the Greenland crisis.

“The genocide in Gaza was a rehearsal for abandoning the principles of law, humanity & respect…The experiment went well and is now being applied elsewhere, as in Venezuela, Greenland & the streets of Minneapolis” - EU official to me on what they see as the broader forces behind this week’s crisis.

With ten days until our contract expires, our unit is not willing to settle for less. We're standing together until we reach a fair deal.

Trump Has An Unpopular New Message For Americans In the week and a half since Renee Good’s killing, the Trump administration has committed itself to a sinister new philosophy in Minneapolis.

The Trump administration's message this past week:

Live unfree or die www.huffpost.com/entry/renee-...

Inside The Invasion Of Minneapolis Trump's agents bring violence and terror. Everyday people are responding with cameras, whistles and defiance.

New: I went to Minneapolis and saw a brutal federal occupation. I also saw neighbors fighting back.

www.huffpost.com/entry/minnea...

Witness Says Victim Was ‘Obviously Scared’ Before Fatal ICE Shooting The victim appeared "obviously scared" and "was going to leave," Emily Heller told HuffPost.

an eyewitness to the Minneapolis ICE shooting told me the victim appeared "obviously scared" and "was going to leave" before an ICE agent fired multiple shots "right into, it seemed like, her face" www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-sh...

Donald Trump’s Ancient Barbarism The 20th-century international order isn’t being replaced now by a more just system that restrains the appetites of powerful nations. It’s quite the opposite.

Trump's New World Order is just the ancient barbarism of might makes right www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

New year same L train

The Surprising Trend That Hampered Trump’s Ability To Confirm Judges In 2025 The president got a decent number of his nominees confirmed to lifetime federal judgeships. But some sitting judges seem reluctant to let Trump replace them.

NEW: Trump got a fair number of his judicial picks confirmed in 2025, but more interestingly, he was stymied all year by retirement-eligible judges not retiring, denying him lots more court vacancies to fill.

“One of the biggest stories this year." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Vanity Fair Reporter Brings The Receipts To Fact Check Susie Wiles' Claims

Susie Wiles told NYT she didn't call Elon Musk "an avowed ketamine" in one of her ELEVEN interviews with Vanity Fair.

"That’s ridiculous. I wouldn’t have said it and I wouldn’t know."

Vanity Fair: Cool here's a recording of you saying that. www.huffpost.com/entry/brown-...

HuffPost splash right now:

(I might have gone with White House Blabber In Chief) www.huffpost.com/entry/brown-...

The Miracle Workers Who Keep Successfully Getting Men Off Death Row “God has used them before. God can use them again,” Julius Jones’ spiritual adviser said ahead of Tremane Wood’s scheduled execution.

“God has used them before. God can use them again."

Of the six people in Oklahoma who have had their death sentences commuted, two — Julius Jones and Tremane Wood — shared the same federal habeas legal team. I spoke with the team about their live-saving work www.huffpost.com/entry/treman...